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Centipedes from Urban Areas in Southwestern Siberia, Russia (Chilopoda) Arthropoda Selecta 26(1): 8–14 © ARTHROPODA SELECTA, 2017 Centipedes from urban areas in southwestern Siberia, Russia (Chilopoda). Part 2. Geophilomorpha Ãóáîíîãèå ìíîãîíîæêè óðáàíèçèðîâàííûõ òåððèòîðèé þãà Çàïàäíîé Ñèáèðè, Ðîññèÿ (Chilopoda). ×àñòü 2. Geophilomorpha P.S. Nefediev1, I.H. Tuf2, G.Sh. Farzalieva3 Ï.Ñ. Íåôåäüåâ1, È.Õ. Òóô2, Ã.Ø. Ôàðçàëèåâà3 1 Altai State University, Lenin Avenue, 61, Barnaul 656049 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Palacký University, Šlechtitelù, 27, Olomouc 77900, Czech Republic. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Perm State University, Bukireva Street, 15, Perm 614600 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 1 Алтайский государственный университет, проспект Ленина, 61, Барнаул 656049 Россия. 3 Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, ул. Букирева, 15, Пермь 614600 Россия. KEY WORDS: Geophilidae, Schendylidae, anthropochore, faunistics, introduction, Siberia. КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: Geophilidae, Schendylidae, антропохор, фаунистика, интродуцент, Сибирь. ABSTRACT. The geophilomorph centipede fauna pha in western Siberia, Asian Russia [Stuxberg, 1876; of urban areas in southwestern Siberia comprises at Sseliwanoff, 1881, 1884; Byzova, Chadaeva, 1965; Ko- least seven species belonging to four genera and two zlovskaya, 1965; Titova, 1969, 1972a, b, 1975; Poryadi- families. The following records are new to western na, 1991; Gerasko, Kolesnichenko, 1997; Nefediev, Siberia (Geophilus flavus (De Geer, 1778)) or south- 2001; Striganova, Poryadina, 2005; Sergeeva, 2010, western Siberia (G. proximus C.L. Koch, 1847 and 2013, 2014, 2015; Bukhkalo, Sergeeva, 2012; Bukhkalo Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)). The et al., 2014] remains understudied. To date, based on the northernmost range limits are reported for Arctogeo- literature data, the geophilomorph fauna of the Asian philus macrocephalus Folkmanová et Dobroruka, 1960, part of Russia comprises at least 26 species with the Escaryus japonicus Attems, 1927 and E. koreanus greatest species diversity observed in the Russian Far Takakuwa, 1937, all lying in western Siberia. The dis- East (21 species), followed first by western and eastern tributions of all relevant species encountered in the Siberia (about 9 species), and then the mountains of region are mapped. southern Siberia (= Altais) (5 species). This can only be related to the latter territory still being poorly studied. РЕЗЮМЕ. Фауна многоножек-землянок урба- Its geophilomorph fauna seems to be especially similar низированных территорий юга Западной Сибири to those of eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. включает как минимум семь видов, принадлежа- The material treated herein has mainly been depos- щих четырем родам и двум семействам. Указанные ited in the collection of the Altai State University, ниже находки оказались новыми: Geophilus flavus Barnaul, Russia (ASU), partly shared also with the (De Geer, 1778) для Западной Сибири; G. proximus collections of the Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech C.L. Koch, 1847 и Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Republic (PUO) and of the Zoological Museum of the Koch, 1835) для юга Западной Сибири. Oтмечена Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Rus- северная граница ареала для Arctogeophilus macro- sia (ZMUM), as indicated in the text. Literature refer- cephalus Folkmanová et Dobroruka, 1960, Escaryus ences to the species concern western Siberia only. japonicus Attems, 1927 и E. koreanus Takakuwa, 1937 в Западной Сибири. Даны карты с распространени- Taxonomic part ем всех видов в указанном регионе. ORDER GEOPHILOMORPHA Introduction Family GEOPHILIDAE This paper continues our review of the centipede fauna of urban habitats in southwestern Siberia, Russia Arctogeophilus macrocephalus Folkmanová et Do- [Nefediev et al., 2016b, c, d]. Despite all recent progress broruka, 1960 in the investigation of geophilomorph centipedes in the Map 1. European part of Russia [Farzalieva, 2008; Volkova, 2014a, b, 2016; Zuev, 2016], the fauna of Geophilomor- ? Arctogeophilus sp.: Byzova, Chadaeva, 1965: 337. Geophilomorpha from SW Siberian urban areas 9 Arctogeophilus macrocephalus Folkmanová et Dobroruka, same locality, soil samples (0–10 cm deep), June–July 2014; 1 $, 4 1960: Zalesskaja et al., 1982: 189. juv. (ASU), same locality, soil samples (10–20 cm deep), June– MATERIAL EXAMINED (17 specimens from 2 localities). 8 July 2014; 27 $$, 4 juv. (ASU), same Province, Barnaul, “Izum- ind. (ASU), 4 ind. (ZMUM), Russia, southwestern Siberia, Tomsk rudnyi” Park, hand sampling, June 2014; 26 $$, 8 juv. (ASU), Area, Tomsk, Irkutskii Tract, glade in Betula forest, 20.07.1999, same locality, soil samples (litter), June 2014; 18 $$, 38 juv. leg. P.S. Nefediev; 5 ind. (ASU), Russia, southwestern Siberia, (ASU), same locality, soil samples (0–10 cm deep), June 2014; 3 Altai Province, Pervomaiskii District, Bobrovka, Pinus sylvestris juv. (ASU), same locality, soil samples (10–20 cm deep), June forest with Betula, 20.08.1999, leg. A.V. Udaloy. 2014; 2 $$, 5 juv. (ASU), same Province, Barnaul, “Yubileinyi” DISTRIBUTION. Being originally described by Park, soil samples (0–10 cm deep), June 2014; 1 $, 3 juv. (ASU), Folkmanová and Dobroruka [1960] from the Tatar Re- same locality, soil samples (10–20 cm deep), June 2014, all leg. A.A. Streltsova; 4 $$ (ASU), same Province, Blagoveschenka Dis- public (= Tatarstan), European Russia, A. macroceph- trict, Glyaden, Acer and Populus woodland belt, 10–14.08.2014, alus is highly widespread, ranging from the European leg. A. Polyakov; 14 $$ (ASU), 4 $$ (ZMUM), same Province, part of Russia through Siberia to the mainland Russian Barnaul, “Lesnaya Skazka” Park, Acer and Betula, under planks, Far East and Sakhalin Island [Zalesskaja et al., 1982]. stones, in litter, 1.05.2015, leg. P.S. Nefediev; 1 $ (ASU), same The records of A. macrocephalus from the Asian part Province, Romanovo District, Tambovskii, 19.08.2015, leg. I.K. Tyutyunnik; 3 $$ (PUO), Russia, southwestern Siberia, Novosi- of Russia have previously been known from western birsk Area, Novosibirsk, Pervomaiskii Square, flower beds with Siberia in the Kemerovo Area and the Altai State Na- bushes, 29.05.2014, leg. P.S. Nefediev. ture Reserve, Republic of Altai [Byzova, Chadaeva, DISTRIBUTION. This northern European, eury- 1965; Zalesskaja et al., 1982]; from eastern Siberia in topic species is distributed across the northern part of the Krasnoyarsk Province [Vorobiova, 1999; Rybalov, the Palaearctic from northeastern Europe to Japan, while 2002; Vorobiova et al., 2002]; and from the Russian the real distribution in the southern European countries Far East in the Jewish Autonomous Area, the Kha- is hard to estimate because of numerous misidentifica- barovsk and Maritime provinces, the Chukotka Auton- tions in the past [Bonato et al., 2005]. Geophilus prox- omous Area and the Sakhalin Area (southern Sakhalin imus is widespread across most of European Russia, Island) [Zalesskaja et al., 1982]. ranging from the Murmansk Area in the north to the REMARKS. This species has hitherto been record- Rostov-on-Don Area in the south and to the Urals in ed neither from the Tomsk Area nor from the Altai the east [Farzalieva, 2008; Volkova, 2016]. In the Asian Province, both southwestern Siberia. The former record part of Russia, it has previously been recorded only is the northernmost range limit of its distribution in from western Siberia [Sseliwanoff, 1881, 1884; Tito- western Siberia. According to Zalesskaja et al. [1982], va, 1969], the Tyumen Area [Poryadina, 1991; Striga- A. macrocephalus can prove to be a junior synonym of nova, Poryadina, 2005; Bukhkalo, Sergeeva, 2012; Ser- A. sachalinus Verhoeff, 1934 and A. attemsi Folk- geeva, 2013; Bukhkalo et al., 2014]. manová, 1956, both of these in their turn possibly REMARKS. According to Zalesskaja et al. [1982], junior subjective synonyms of A. glacialis Attems, 1909, G. proximus tends to inhabit moderately humid soils, from Alaska, USA. Re-examination of type materials, but Sergeeva [2013] noted its being a typical pedo- as well as barcoding might be the proper tools to re- biont that needs no litter, predominating in open, well solve these problems. heated sites. Zalesskaja et al. [1982] also suggested Schizotaenia ornata Folkmanová et Dobroruka, 1960 Geophilus proximus C.L. Koch, 1847 to be a junior synonym of G. proximus, despite the lack Map 2. of information on the carpophagous structure in the original description [cf. Bonato, Minelli, 2014]. This is Geophilus proximus C.L. Koch, 1847: Sseliwanoff, 1881: 6–7, the most common geophilomorph centipede from ur- 1884: 87–89; Titova, 1969: 165; Poryadina, 1991: 14; Striganova, Poryadina, 2005: 130; Bukhkalo, Sergeeva, 2012: 61; Sergeeva, ban areas in southwestern Siberia. The Siberian popu- 2013: 530–532; 2014: 72; Bukhkalo et al., 2014: 73–74. lations of this species are parthenogenetic like are those MATERIAL EXAMINED (230 specimens: 136 $$, 94 juve- across most of European Russia. This species has hith- niles from 13 localities). 3 $$ (PUO), Russia, southwestern Sibe- erto been recorded neither from the Tomsk nor the ria, Tomsk Area, Tomsk, “Lagernyi Sad” Park, Betula, 17.05.2004; 2 $$ (PUO), same Area, Tomsk, “Buff-Sad” Park, Acer and Popu- Novosibirsk areas, nor the Altai Province, all in south- lus, 15.05.2008; 3 $$, 2 juv. (ASU), Russia, southwestern Siberia, western Siberia, where it dwells only in outdoor habi- Altai Province, Biysk, Sorokino, Malus stands on the bank of tats such as city parks and open man-made grounds. Biya River, litter,11.10.2009; 1 $ (ASU), same locality,
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